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Arthurs Stone. Dorstone, Herefordshire.

This stone on Merbach Hill,

Marks the grave of a Giant that Arthur slew.

The marks on the stones beside the grave

were made by the elbows of the Giant.

A megalithic burial of c.3000 BC is known as Arthur’s Stone, just north of Dorstone (SD3141)

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Carn Cafall. Builth Wells, Brecon.

Legend says when Arthur was hunting

the great boar upon the mountain

his dog, Cafall, left a pawprint on a stone.

Arthur built a cairn with the stone on top

and named the mountain

the Ridge of Cafalls Cairn.

If the stone is moved

it will always return.

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Coeten Arthur. ( Arthurs Stone ) Reynoldstown, Glamorgan.

This boulder stands on Cefn Bryn Common.

It is said to a ‘pebble’

that King Arthur removed from his boot

on his way to the battle of Camlan.

He threw it over his shoulder

and it landed on the common,

seven miles away.

The 25 ton capstone of an ancient burial chamber near Reynoldston, north of Cefn Brynis, West Glamorgan (SS490905) is called Arthur’s stone and his ghost is occasionally said to emerge from underneath it – it is explained as a stone that was tossed from Arthur’s shoe

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Eamont Bridge. Westmoreland.

Giants Cave, by the Eamont River

Was said to be the lair of a man eating giant called Isir,

and was sometimes known as Isir’s Parlour.

  It is also linked in legend with Tarquin,

a giant knight who imprisoned 64 brave men in his cave.

He was eventually slain by Sir Lancelot.

  Some people also claim that Uther Pendragon,

Arthurs father, lived here, and that like Isir,

he ate human flesh.

Mallerstang - Pendragon Castle

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Kings Crag, Queens Crag

Arthur sits on Kings Crag,

Guinevere on Queens Crag

combing her back hair.

Had a quarrel

Arthur threw a great rock at her

Which hit her comb

And fell between the two crags.

It lies there to this day

The teethmarks of the comb

Still plainly visible

On the face of the rock.

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Llyn Barfog, the Bearded Lake, Merioneth.

It is said that a terrible monster, the avanc,

lived in the lake, from where it would raid the surrounding countryside.

 When Arthur came to hear of this, he went to the lake

and threw a great chain around the avanc.

Then, with the help of his mighty horse (sometimes called Llamrei),

he hauled the creature from the lake and killed it.

Proof of this is found a short distance from Llyn Barfog

in the shape of a stone known as Carn March Arthur, the Stone of Arthur's Horse.

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The cavern below Tintagel castle

Is known as Merlins Cave.

The wizards ghost is said to

wander in its echoing recesses.

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Pen-marc. Glamorgan.

In King Arthurs time a prince of Gwynedd

owned a strong and very swift horse which he used

to send messages to the Kings court in Somerset.

On one occasion the horse was galloping so fast

that it slipped and in falling was decapitated,

at a place now called Cefn March, the horses ridge.

But its head travelled on until it fell,

and this place became known as Pen March, the horses head.

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Yr Widdfa. Snowdon, Caernarfon.

On the peak of the mountain is a cairn

said to be that of a giant slain by Arthur.

Near the summit is the bottomless lake of Glasnyn.

Its waters, stained green by copper ore,

are believed to contain the dreaded Afanc,

a water monster dragged from its lair

in the Conway River by Arthur with giant oxen and

dumped into Lake Glasnyn.

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An ‘Arthur’s Stone’ (in Denbigh, SJ224470)

more geographical Arthuriana